Using lightroom 5. edited photos and forgot to plug my external lightroom disk in. plugged disk in and now only have a rainbow twirly

im a newer lightroom 5 user on MAC, but have learned pretty quickly.
I have been editing a set of photos, and while picking up today I forgot to plug my external Lightroom storage disk into my laptop.
Then without thinking I plugged the disk into my laptop hoping the disk would appear and sync.
Right now all i have is a rainbow twirly on the screen.
Not sure what to do.
Can I close Lightroom and save all my edits?
Do I need to unplug the disk and restart lightroom?
Thank you in advance for any assistance, this is the first time i have made this error

Even though no one answered, thanks for looking anyway.
Problem solved. It seems that Finder on the MAC was frozen/stalled so it could not see the disk.
I deinstalled the external storage disk, created a folder on the desktop and exported all the photos i was working on from Lightroom to there.
I closed Lightroom (and upgraded to 5.5), killed Finder and restarted my laptop.
Inserted my external Lightroom storage and it was recognized, brought up Lightroom and all was well.

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